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Pronunciation: /fluk//fluːk/

noun

On the tiny chance it was a fluke, I'm banking on my artistic abilities.

The confidence is brewing in Southern California, and the Bolts are out to prove last year's surprise was less fluke and more the start of a trend.

Charlie's condition is a fluke so the chance of any future siblings having it are just one in 50.

‘My modeling career was a bit of a fluke,’ she says.

When we got it last year we felt it was a bit of a fluke but then we turned around and did it two years on the trot.

It's the only song I scored as low as Switzerland which, through luck, fluke or divine intervention, received precisely the number of points it deserved: a big fat zero.

It was a bit of a fluke but everyone at the club was delighted and so was I.

For many of us, success and failure turn on lucky breaks and fluke occurrences - starting most importantly with the accident of birth.

We would say, in fact, that B's failure to castle was a fluke, bad luck with the random number generator.

And you'll never know the joy that fans in the rest of the country will experience when the fluke happens and the Yankees lose this year.

Luck, in the sense of a fluke occurrence, had nothing to do with it.

If Helena's experience wasn't a fluke, something similar should have happened in other jurisdictions with smoking bans.

I left that meeting with the shooters confident my experience was simply a fluke, an accident that was so unlikely it never could happen again.

Contrary to what Bettman might think, a fluke occurrence can not be used as precedent: after all, a fluke occurrence is by definition rare.

Some of them, by genetic fluke or bad luck, are not here even by choice, unconscious or no.

Pile said the fire was a fluke occurrence and doesn't indicate a problem with the submarines.

As it turns out, they're not that great a side and that win was a bit of a fluke, but I think they've got the potential to make the finals - they just need a coach who isn't a bleached blonde surfer dude flake.

As may be imagined, this capture, not so much a fluke as a surprise gave me cause to rethink my fishing plans on the lake.

The fluke was a bit insipid, but then again this was a test-run: after this first experience, I'm willing to give anything Todd serves a second go.